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    The Bass Place, Birmingham

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Many happy memories of the Bass Centre and Musical Exchanges.

     

    I did my work experience at MX in the '90s under the supervision of Woz who ran the bass dept.

     

    Needless to say very little if any proper experience of work was gained but it was good experience. 

     

    Woz was a superb 'noodler' i.e. could pick up a bass and slap/tickle etc it and make you feel totally inadequate then hand it over for you to try it out 😄 

     

    The Brum Bass Centre is where the infamous violated Duck Dunn P Bass that sometimes pops up for sale online originated from. 

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    G&L - but which one

    in Bass Guitars

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    2 hours ago, jd56hawk said:

    What about the Kiloton?

    Passive but potent.

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    Just look at the finish on that... yum 😋 

    Owned a US LB100, was a beautifully made instrument. 

     

    Would love to try a L1000 someday but I too dislike too many switches etc. 

     

    G&L are totally underrated instruments which is a shame. How can they achieve that 'cool' factor?

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    The Yamaha BB mega-thread

    in Bass Guitars

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    31 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

    That looks great, how different does it sound to the original loom 

    Will let you know once I've had a proper play but TBH with bridges, pots etc it's all so subjective isn't it?

     

    All i can say is that the stock wiring was a bit of a tangled mess, the Kiogon loom is very neat and tidy.

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    The Yamaha BB mega-thread

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    Speaking of which, just got my 414 back from the tech today...

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    upgrades complete: gotoh bridge, proper jack plate instead of the barrel-type one it comes with, and a @KiOgonloom fitted (Tech had to do the loom for me as the shaft holes were too narrow for the new pots and I'm not going anywhere near it with my black and decker with my cack-handedness). 

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    Sounds great, have missed having her and her very loud pickups around, rehearsal next Tuesday 😎

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    The Yamaha BB mega-thread

    in Bass Guitars

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    53 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

    That is sweet! Congrats! Did you hold onto your 734A or did that get moved on?

    Kinda makes me feel that Yamaha got it right a long time ago, and their subsequent tweaks haven't materially changed what was a fantastic core product. And in terms of colours on offer with matching headstocks, well there's a decent argument to say that they've since gone backwards.

    This. 

     

    They messed with the essence of the BB range and lost that raw rock and roll coolness that you got with the 414/424/1024.

     

    The current range is very tame indeed, a very poor selection of colours on offer,  and as @Machinespointed out above, over-engineered.

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    NBD - Squier CV Late 50's Precision Bass

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    5 hours ago, spacecowboy said:

    I have one of these but in the two tone sunburst, it's made me realise that after so many years of playing and never trying one, a P Bass might be the only bass I need. 

     

    As you mentioned the quality is fantastic, it plays brilliantly, and sounds superb.

     

    It's made me fall in love with playing bass all over again.

    This has got to be the ultimate endorsement of a bass 🙂

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    Saw a great gig... but the sound was awful 😕

    in General Discussion

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    Took my 10 year old daughter to see Yungblud (see above) at the O2 Academy in Brum last week.

     

    Was her first proper gig and she loved it- he didn't do much for me before we went but I was really  impressed by a superb performance and he's a proper showman plus he came across as a nice guy when we met him at the meet and greet beforehand. 

     

    Anyway, the reason behind the post is that the sound was terrible. The kick drum and bass notes (synth, not bass guitar regrettably) were so loud it made me feel physically ill. Every time the drummer hit the kick or a bass note rang out I felt my chest vibrate. This was the case for all three bands on the bill.

     

    Don't get me wrong I like to 'feel' it when I see bands live but this was ridiculous and the loudness of the bass frequencies 'squashed' the rest of the sound.

     

    During sections when the bass and kick were silent the rest of the sound was crystal clear and well mixed which leads me to wonder whether it was our position in the room to blame for the sound problem?

     

    With the size of bass frequencies was it inevitable that we would be hit full on in the face with bass being sat in the balcony while the punters in the stalls below get a properly mixed sound?

     

    We were sat in the front row of the balcony, right in the centre and facing the stage square on. The sound engineer was sat on the level directly below where we were sat (would have loved to go down there and push through the teenage hordes and ask him to "turn it down a bit"  😄).

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